The question of balance here seems key. What’s your thoughts on finding that right balance between randomness and control?

I’m glad Q/E/C is showing promise. Let me now how it holds up after your first exams using the method.

Also, I agree about randomness helping to free you from structures. Left to my own devices, I tend toward comfort and structure, so I put a lot of effort into injecting more randomness into my day to day.

@Arman:

I think you’re right. This is modern version of age-old advice: “explore your world!”

It’s an interesting point. But here’s my take. Once you’ve decided to go after a particular project, it’s important to develop a completion addiction and look for systemization to make sure the works gets done.

Where Ben’s advice comes into play, I think, is deciding what projects to go after. The warning here is to avoid the idea that you can just sit in a quiet room and plan out, in advance, all the projects to let enter your horizon.

Is this convincing?

P.S. So far I’ve been using the Q/E/C format to take notes (or fix them, since it’s a lot harder to do on the fly, in class, than one would think) and it makes loads more sense than my old haphazard system I was using before. I hope to see some improvement in my recall abilities now.